Lee Seitz has an authoritative site on Rom, The Space Knight, a Parker Brothers robot action figure that was pretty cool even though it flopped. I had a couple of these when I was a kid. Looks like go for about $200 if you can find them MIB on EBay. It wasn’t that cool of…
October, 2004
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The primary goal I’ve had for the past few years is to get my web sits to the point where they’re serving more than 1 million page views/month. This week was the first time I’ve ever seen traffic above the 250,000 page views/week level. Good, now I can quit and go do other things. Just…
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I thought the Yankees were going to sweep the Red Sox, so my prognisticating isn’t very good. That said, my prediction for Tuesday’s election — Kerry pulls out a win. If you look at the Real Clear Politics graph of the daily average of the major polls, the race has been pretty stable with Bush…
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First it was the Democrats threatening Sinclair over its plan to broadcast an anti-Kerry documentary. Now the Republicans are following suit by filing a complaint against a couple radio show hosts who have been attacking a Republican member of the House and have endorsed his Democratic challenger. According to the L.A. Daily News, In a…
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Walter Cronkite the other day completed his transformation from former respected newsman to left wing nut with his appearance on Larry King Live (emphasis added), CRONKITE: What we just heard. So now the question is basically right now, how will this affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election…
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Llewellyn publishers has a Wizard of Oz-themed tarot deck:
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If you’re a Buffy/Angel fanatic (and really, if you aren’t, you should be) in the Midwest, check out this summer’s Motor City Buffy Con here in the great state of Michigan. Thank goodness I won’t have to go out of state to get my Buffy con fix this summer.
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Odd story from the Cedar Valley Times (Iowa) showing that there not all the relgious nutcases are in the Republican Party, Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin says John Kerry has been gaining in the polls every day since Oct. 21, and George Bush has been going down every day. “That’s how God wants it to be,”…
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Yesterday, I took time off work to help out with a Halloween party at my daughter’s school. This included the kids getting their Halloween costumes on and parading through the neighborhood. So the big costume for boys at this school was Spider-Man. It was basically one big Spider-Man vs. Ninjas showdown, with a few firemen…
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Currently static files on this site are served using IIS. Seth Dillingham recently mentioned the possibility of switching to Apache, so I thought I’d just check to see about relative speeds for serving static files between Apache and IIS. Google led me straight to this page which discuss the merits of using Apache vs. IIS…